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In other cases justices can be described social compromise to achieve a higher ideal in the
society, for example, saving others from danger, like health and using technology for common
beneficed, 152 and deconstruction can be used to create boundaries where social equilibrium to
be able to achieved. To achieve the social equilibrium a historical memory is need to give a
context-precedent. The precedent can give responsibility to this equilibrium and give a new
definition of justices. 153
While the power of the state-elite is to impose identity, culture and language, such historical
example of identity imperialism is Russification. 154 A historical context the Polish-Lithuanian
commonwealth lasted from 1569-1795, 155 where the foundation was based on idea of multi-
ethnic groups. 156 By the 18th century, destabilization of its political system brought Poland to
the brink of civil war. The Commonwealth was facing many internal problems and was
vulnerable to foreign influences. An outright war between the King and the nobility broke out
in 1715, and Tsar Peter the Great's mediation put him in a position to further weaken the
state. 157 The Russian army was present at the Silent Sejm of 1717, which limited the size of
the armed forces to 24,000 and specified it’s funding, reaffirmed the destabilizing practice of
liberum veto, and banished the king's Saxon army; the Tsar was to serve as guarantor of the
agreement.
Western Europe's increasing exploitation of resources in the Americas rendered the
Commonwealth's supplies less crucial. In 1768, the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth
152
Ibid., 953
Ibid., 955
154
Richard S. Wortman 2000. Scenarios of Power: Myth and Ceremony in Russian Monarchy. Princeton
University Press. ISBN 0-691-02947-4
155
Europe: A History, Pimlico 1997, p. 554: Poland-Lithuania was another country which experienced its
'Golden Age' during the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. The realm of the last Jagiellons was
absolutely the largest state in Europe
156
J. K. Fedorowicz, Maria Bogucka, Henryk Samsonowicz 198). A Republic of nobles: studies in Polish history
to 1864. CUP Archive. pp. 209.
157
Norman Davies 1998. Europe: A History. HarperCollins. pp. 657–660.
153
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